Two very Irish Cities… Dublin and Belfast

We spent two and a half weeks in Dublin, and we liked it. But… Dublin seems like a big city that was designed by someone without a ton of creativity. There are some beautiful spots there, really nice architecture and engineering, but it seems like they just gave up designing and started repeating the best […]

A Rant About Ayampe

We left Ayampe after two and a half months. I can’t really say that it was terrible, and I can’t really say it was great. It was a strange place. Let me just start by saying that I loved the locals. Every morning I would take a stroll down to the beach to check the […]

See ya Kwajalein… It’s been interesting.

We have been here a year now. It has been a year of mixed emotions. I know I have not posted much in here about the island, but the times I have posted have been about how much fun we have been having. But, like everything else in life, it hasn’t always been tropical beaches, […]

Psst… Hey buddy. Need a used car?

Part four (or is it part five? I can’t remember any longer) of our trip to Pohnpei last July (yep. Still haven’t gotten to the surf trip in October) finds us driving around the island in our rental car. Strangely, all the cars here are from Asian countries so they are right-hand drive cars, but […]

Nerds in front of waterfalls.

Number three in the continuing Pohnpei saga is about a couple of nerds who visit waterfalls (shoot, we still aren’t caught up to our most recent surf trip). One nerd does it with some kind of weird waterfall FOMO (fear of missing out) bordering on a squirrel-on-crack-obsessiveness. The other nerd? Well, that one tags along […]

A Pig

A perfectly proportioned, partially perturbed Pohnpeian pig, perambulating ponderously, possibly perusing a pasture for palatable protein. Probably particularly prefers the prenom Petunia. Sorry about that one guys! Anyway, it’s a pig.

A Walk Around Nan Madol

In the spirit of keeping up with our travels in a timely manner, I mentioned in the last post that we were on Pohnpei for some surfing. This is not that post. Instead, it is a post about a trip we took there in July, to hike, visit a million waterfalls, and visit the ruins […]

Here Be Dragons…

I have always loved the saying – the legend on maps – from the Middle Ages and the time of oceanic exploration that says, “here be dragons”. It was such a great description of those places marked on maps, yet to be discovered, where people had not yet traveled, or had not explored fully enough […]

My walk yesterday

I took a walk yesterday, in the morning, and, yes, it was freezing cold. Strangely, I ran into a couple people I know, and of course the topic of the election the night before came up. All right, before I go too much further, I will apologize ahead of time for any statements in here […]

A Conversation Over Brunch

Tam and I are in Tucson. It is not one of our favorite places, and it really lacks the warm salty ocean and a beach, but we are here helping her family through some big changes. Tam was here for a month, and I just got here after finishing all of the to-do lists for […]